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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 24, 1997Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1997, 5:34 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1997, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1997, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Laurens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 256 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2088 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 24, 2:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
215 PM EDT THU JUL 24 1997

ALL: GOING TRENDS LOOKS GOOD...SMALL DIRUNAL POPS OK FOR SATURDAY.
RAH: MOSTLY SUNNY BETTER FOR FRIDAY...OTHERWISE LOOKS GOOD.

S/WV & ASSOCIATED WEAK SFC BNDRY MAY STILL BE THE FOCUS FOR TSTMS
TONIGHT ALTHOUGH WILL BE TEMPERED BY SOME SUBSIDENCE & WARM TEMPS
ALOFT.  FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD...WE'LL SEE A TRANISITION BACK
TO SUBTROPICAL RIDGING INTO THE WEEKEND WITH VERY WARM TEMPS
THROUGHOUT THE COLUMN.  WILL CONTINUE TO HANG ONTO RH IN THE
LOWER LEVELS THOUGH OBVIOUSLY OF A CONSERIDERABLE SHALLOWER DEPTH
WITH TROPICAL SYSTEM OUT OF THE PICTURE.  DIURNAL TSTM COVERAGE
FRI & SAT LATE DAY/EVE WILL RANGE FROM ISLOATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED
...SO WSFOS CAN CARRY TOKEN SMALL POPS EACH DAY IF DESIRED.

GSP  70/92/70/93  2020
AVL  66/86/65/88  2222
CLT  73/91/72/93  2020

CSH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 24, 3:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
354 PM EDT THU JUL 24 1997

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

340 PM     3 NW INMAN                SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/97   SPARTANBURG                    INMAN POLICE REPORT TREES
                                          AND POWER LINES DOWN IN
                                          INMAN.

DEO

Local storm report, Jul 24, 4:44 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
445 PM EDT THU JUL 24 1997

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.\....

437 PM     TAYLORS                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/97   GREENVILLE                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

JZ

Local storm report, Jul 24, 4:45 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
445 PM EDT THU JUL 24 1997

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

437 PM     TAYLORS                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/24/97   GREENVILLE                     TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

JZ

Local storm report, Jul 24, 5:03 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 24, 5:25 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 1:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	4 hr
Jul 24, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie	35 min
Jul 24, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	47 min
Jul 24, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	51 min
Jul 24, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.